Mr. Piper is a 1963 Canadian children's TV series. The series was created by Martin Andrews and Allan Wargon, who was also the producer.

The show's host was a large Canadian opera tenor Alan Crofoot, dressed as a Pied Piper with a flower in his hat. He would introduce four segments in each half-hour programme:

    Teletune - as a narrator of limited animation cartoons of fantasy stories
    Port of Call - presenter of films about children and events in other lands;
    Bag of Tricks - Crofoot performs magic tricks;
    Animal Farm - many farmyard characters telling the story of the day in miniature barnyard sets, featuring Rupert the Rat, Bessie the Bunny, Kookie the Kitten, Harriet Hen, Freddie Frog, Calvin (Rac)Coon and Charlotte Cow.

It was originally shown by CBC Television and also became well known in the United Kingdom, where it was repeated on ITV throughout the 1960s and 1970s, often as part of school summer holiday programming. In May/June 1972, some Mr. Piper episodes were transmitted, dubbed into Italian, by the RAI-TV network.

   The series also aired as half-episodes, and as just the animated fairytale segments. This is a selection of the animated fairytales only.

Episode list

    Oh My Baby
    Ali Baba
    Brave Molly
    It's A Triple
    Touch Me
    Hasty and the Princess
    The Kindhearted Girl
    The Magic Horn
    The Three Sisters
    The Proud Princess
    It Grew Two Sizes
    Ahmed the Merchant
    Hansel and Gretel
    The Wild Swans
    The Tin Soldier
    The Three Brothers
    Hassan the Simple
    The Three Soldiers

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